ocean colour level 3 products

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The ESA funded GlobCOLOUR project (see http://dup.esrin.esa.it/projects/summaryp72.asp) is developing an operational service for the delivery of ocean colour level 3 products. Data from 4 sensors (SeaWIFS, MODIS, MERIS and POLDER) will be merged to produce a 10-year time series of products. During Phase 1, the University of Plymouth (as part of an international consortium) are tasked with assembling an in situ database that will be used to characterise the individual sensors or validate merged products. Would you be willing to contribute data to this database and what would be the conditions of usage? We are collating the following types of information (only surface values are needed):

i. Chlorophyll-a concentration (by HPLC or fluorometric techniques)
ii. Coloured dissolved organic matter
iii. Total suspended matter
iv. Diffuse attenuation coefficient
v. Fully normalised water leaving radiances and/or the different parameters required to calculate them
vi. Aerosol optical thickness
vii. Absorption, scattering and backscattering

As a Diagnostic Data Set (DDS) site we would be extracting a box (approximately 100 km $B!_(B 100 km) centred on your site from all available imagery (both the individual satellite and merged GlobCOLOUR products) and this would be available to you via the GlobCOLOUR WWW site.

Yours sincerely,

Yaswant Pradhan
yaswant.pradhan@plymouth.ac.uk

Credits: NIO intranet